I built a picture frame that shows my friend group's Letterboxd reviews the moment they post them. My family is obsessed with it.
So this started because my friends are genuinely funny on Letterboxd and it felt wrong that their reviews just scroll away into nothing.
Now there's a frame in our kitchen that shows one review at a time, big, like it's art. The poster on the left, their stars and their little writeup on the right. It looks like a printed page in a frame, not a screen. There's NO glow, so it's perfect for movie nights. Guests do not clock it as a screen until it changes in front of them, which has this really cool ink dithering effect.
It rotates all day on its own. Someone logs a movie at the theater and their review is on our wall before they're home. My friend gave Spider-man 2 a four and a half stars with the review "god bless Spider-man 2" and that hung in our kitchen like a museum piece for two hours. That's the whole product honestly.
I had some fun building this and coded in some additional features. Chiefly: it remembers. A year to the day after you watched something, that old review comes back around. We've had dinner arguments start because the wall decided to bring up somebody's 2025 take on a movie they now claim they always loved. It keeps receipts.
It does other stuff too.
- My friends and I all rank our 2026 release watches. So now, you can put a whole ranked list up when you're feeling brave for other's to judge.
- There's a movie night mode, where you can display a selected movie or randomly choose one from your friend group's watch list, along with everyone's ratings (of those who have seen it).
- You can ask Alexa to change it when you don't like the review that's up, which was supposed to be a joke feature and is now the most used one.
"Alexa, ask matinee to cycle"
"Alexa, ask matinee what's now showing"
- And there's a page in the little app that shows every review the wall has ever displayed, which has become a nice little history book.
- I'm still dreaming up more features!
I live in California now but am from Michigan, and this has been a fantastic way to stay engaged with my friend group back home.
How I built it is in the comments for anyone who wants that.
Real question though: a couple friends keep saying they want one and I can't tell if they're being polite.
Would you actually hang one of these in your place?